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it's all about the story, possums...Mon, 12 Feb 2018 22:18:57 +0000enhourly1http://wordpress.com/https://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.pngSophia Riley Kobackerhttps://sophiarileykobacker.wordpress.com
Australian Screenwriting: SF & Fantasy Are Backhttps://sophiarileykobacker.wordpress.com/2018/02/13/australian-screenwriting-sf-fantasy-are-back/
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It is a really exciting time to be writing Science Fiction in Australia. SF is on TV screens – Glitch, The Kettering Incident and Clever Man. Horror and SF films are doing really well. They’re selling overseas – Babadook is one of our most successful recent exports and is solidly genre. – Catherine S. McMullen with David Tiley, Screen Hub. More:
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For those who think of Australia culturally as the USA’s 51st state, researchers conclude: The belief that Australia is a proportional, perfectly formed microcosm of American cultural preferences is shown to be largely unsubstantiated. – Don Groves, IF Magazine. More:
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Wonder Woman 2 will be first film to officially adopt new PGA policies on sexual harassment. It is our obligation to change our culture and eradicate this abuse. The Producers Guild of America’s Anti-Sexual Harassment Guidelines are sanctioned as best practices for our members. – PGA. More:
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In Rey’s melody, people have located allusions to the Star Wars main theme, and to the leitmotifs of Darth Vader, Kylo Ren, the emperor, and the Force. Fans are using this tactic to predict what will happen with Rey’s character on a narrative level. – Frank Lehman/Marykate Jasper, The Mary Sue. More:
]]>https://sophiarileykobacker.wordpress.com/2018/01/17/reys-secrets-hidden-in-john-williams-score/feed/1sophiarileykobackerstar-wars-80Sundance 2018: EOS World Fund launchhttps://sophiarileykobacker.wordpress.com/2018/01/10/sundance-2018-eos-world-fund-launch/
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2018 Recipients: Julie Dash & Nina Menkes. The EOS World Fund is a new global initiative that supports bold & innovative women directors. Launch: Jan 19th 2018, The Black House, Sundance Film Festival.

Created by Apricot Films’ visionary producer / director Gwen Wynne, EOS is a response to the crisis involving the severe lack of women helmers in cinema.

Gwen Wynne’s EOS World Fund seeks out material and artists who are known for their unusual, innovative and provocative cinematic work, in both form and content.

Scorsese’s Film Foundationhas just awarded a restoration grant to Mark Toscano at the Academy Film Archives, to photochemically restore Nina Menkes’ feature film, QUEEN OF DIAMONDS (1991). Grants are given to work that is considered “culturally and historically significant”.

]]>https://sophiarileykobacker.wordpress.com/2018/01/10/sundance-2018-eos-world-fund-launch/feed/0sophiarileykobackerDaughters of the DustMartin McDonagh’s Americahttps://sophiarileykobacker.wordpress.com/2018/01/03/martin-mcdonaghs-america/
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Martin McDonagh wrote ‘Three Billboards‘while travelling between New York and LA via Santa Fe and Montana. “I write by hand on notepads,” he muses, “And at the top of each page I write whichever country or state I’m in. This script was like a road map of America. – Rhiana Davies-Cotter and James Mottram, FilmInk. More:
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As a bare-minimum metric, the Bechdel Test does a good job of showing how amazingly far Hollywood is from gender equality. But it isn’t going to push the industry toward an identifiable goal. Many films that pass the Bechdel Test failed most of these new tests. – Walt Hickey, Ella Koeze, Rachael Dottle & Gus Wezerek, FiveThirtyEight. More:
]]>https://sophiarileykobacker.wordpress.com/2017/12/27/the-next-bechdel-test/feed/4sophiarileykobacker8010104-3x2-700x467Hollywood Blockbusters & American Politicshttps://sophiarileykobacker.wordpress.com/2017/12/20/hollywood-blockbusters-american-politics/
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Both politics and entertainment are, in different ways, acts of storytelling. Too often, today’s sequels and spinoffs come across like feature-length teasers. They’re all middle. They exist to hype what’s next rather than dwell in the cinematic moment and provide narrative closure. We need new stories, new policies and new ideas, but right now, neither Hollywood nor Washington appears willing to deliver. – Peter Suderman, NY Times. More:
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Writer/Director Taylor Sheridan has scrubbed Harvey Weinstein’s name from Wind River. Acacia Entertainment, backed by the Tunica-Biloxi tribes, is funding the film’s awards campaign. Future profits are earmarked for the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Centre, serving abused Native American women. – Gill Pringle, FilmInk. More:
]]>https://sophiarileykobacker.wordpress.com/2017/12/10/wind-river-weinstein-eliminated/feed/6sophiarileykobackerwind_river_1Mythology: A Woman Translates Homer’s Odysseyhttps://sophiarileykobacker.wordpress.com/2017/12/04/mythology-a-woman-translates-homers-odyssey/
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It’s hard to believe now, but women learning the classics was a genuine threat to male power. Against this long background of misogyny and fear, it is surprising, but not astonishing, that the first English translation of the Odyssey by a woman has only now come out. – Annalisa Quinn, NPR. More:
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